Abstract
Hydrogen or Helium-filled High Altitude Balloons (HABs) carrying scientificinstrumentation have been used by St. Catherine University’s all-women researchteam to explore Earth’s atmosphere. These balloons are typically made of latexrubber, allowing them to expand until bursting at approximately 32 km becausethey cannot stretch anymore. This altitude is recognized as the stratosphericregion of the atmosphere, considered to be an area with near-space conditions. Byconducting this research via HABs, it has been possible to provide a broaderunderstanding of the importance of pressure, uncharged and charged cosmic rays,and temperature in the upper regions of the atmosphere to the general community,and to widen the scope of ballooning research. The scope of this work is toexpand eclipse research conducted by St. Catherine University during the 2017eclipse and to introduce new instrumentation to observe atmospheric changescaused by solar obscuration during the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses.
How to Cite:
Tapper, A., Korzeniowski, C., Durand, G., Panmany, J., Agrimson, E. P. & Kinney, H., (2022) “Measurements Recorded via Stratospheric Ballooning”, Academic High Altitude Conference . doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/ahac.11639
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